I did so, and was pointed to Jesus, and I obtained peace.' "Another told of his conversion by a tract, four years ago, on his passage to Sydney.

'To my sorrow,' he said, 'I became a backslider.
But I thank God He ever brought me here.

That blessed man, Mr.
Booth, preached, and I gave my heart to God afresh.

I now take tracts to sea regularly.

I have only eighteen shillings a week, but I save my tobacco and beer money to buy tracts.' "The verse-- I never shall forget the day When Jesus took my sins away, was then sung.
"A stout man, a navvy, who said he had been one of the biggest drunkards in London, having briefly spoken, was followed by one known as 'Jemmy the butcher,' who keeps a stall in the Whitechapel Road.